WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding.

As she was closing up shop on a blustery December night, a man dressed in black burst into Brow Beauty Salon.

He waved a black-and-gold handgun at Rashmi Samani and demanded she give him all the money in the register. She obliged, but the robber still shoved her to the ground before fleeing the Omaha shop.

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration detention center is being created in the roughly 7,500-resident city of McCook, Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed.

His announcement Tuesday was part of a multi-pronged push to support the Trump administration and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s ramped-up approach to deportation.

A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again.

by Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper

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